The Great Disaster
Its a sloppy chapter :)
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It was a day where there are no clouds blocking the blinding rays of the morning sunlight, the gentle breeze gently caressing the skin of the people under the sky some are off to work, some are meeting friends and some are maintaining their health and physique like this certain teenager thats currently doing planks on a nearby public playground/park all alone.
"9 minutes and 57 seconds...9 minutes and 58 seconds...9 minutes and and 59 seconds...10 minutes,,,there done." Fumio slumped down on the grassy floor, while catching his breath this was his every day routine, waking up in 6 am in the morning then doing a series of exercises that contains. 100 sit ups, 100 push ups, 100 squats, 10km sprint and finally a 10 minute plank to end it all.
"but i have to say my body sure is weird." he never once saw anything note worthy with his body in Fumios memories, on the contrary old Fumio has a weak constitution, just doing a 1km sprint is all it takes to make him pass out. Thats the reason why he has an abnormally white skin tone and a thin physique, he's bad at any kind of physical activities other than moving his right hand up and down for 10 minutes straight.
But now the new Fumio is different, at first when he started the routine, thoughts that his frail body could only handle 5 push ups before falling down came in his mind, but he was astonished to find out that he can do 37 if he tried hard enough, and that was just the first day! He expected that his body will end up sore for a whole day atleast, but after a night's rest he found out that all of the muscle strains are gone and he felt great, So he kept at it pushing his limits until 1 month and a week had passed and the results are uncanny.
His past pale skin is now gone and was instead replaced by a rosy white tone brimming with life, his thin malnourished body was now replaced with an athletic one, currently he's on the lean side even his height increased standing at 182cm, and his eye bags are now gone, leaving only a unblemished smooth and rosy face with a sharp jaw, turn-up nose, smooth and glossy lips and finally his ruby red eyes.
"thus i had come to a conclusion, my body has been enhanced, i dont know its limits yet, but seeing my abnormal growth rate it should be on par with pro athletes like Usane bolt in speed and Muhammad Ali in explosive strength." but he could feel it, he felt like he can surpass the two of them in just a short amount of time if he goes all out, its like there's a hidden and monstrous potential hiding within him.
"im hungry, better go back now." picking himself up, he went ahead and traversed the concrete road while jogging, eventually reaching his house. From there Fumio took a bath, changed clothes then went next door to the Junk shop.
"good morning." Fumio entered the shop, taking a step on the brown cemented floor, the interior walls were painted grey, and there's a wide variety of second hand stuff arranging from instruments, computer parts, broken phones, electric appliances, art related stuff and many more, some placed in shelves and some near the walls or tables, he walked until he reached the back where a cafe was placed.
"oh my, already done with your exercise Miyamoto-kun." Rikka's Mama spoke while polishing the wooden counter table on the side.
"yes i just got back right now." he then sat on one of the bar chair next to the counter.
"the usual again right?"
"yes." this was his go to place if he ever wanted to eat nutritious food without doing all the troublesome work that comes with it, since he cant cook that well yet he's been coming here almost every day after he found out that the Junk shop doubles as a cafe.
Orie went in the kitchen then came back after a few minutes, holding a metal tray filled with food.
"Here you go." Orie placed down the plates to Fumio.
"thank you for the food."
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"did you find a place to work?" Orie ask once Fumio finished his breakfast.
"no still haven't, im still familiarising my self living in this lifestyle first before finding one." in these past month the relationship between Fumio and the Takarada Household went from distant neighbours to rather close ones due to the fact that Fumio would always swing by and eat in the morning on their store and even asking Orie for a favor giving him tips in cooking, Orie then became curious and asked Fumio why he was living all alone, seeing that telling them the truth wouldn't really do anything bad, he told them that he was expelled from his clan to never return again since he was deemed useless and would never attain anything note worthy with his trash talent and potential. (A/N: I've read to much cultivation novel, that i actually based my mc on one.)
This shocked them at first, they never really know what the inner workings in the high society were, their traditions and practices are weird, (A/N: im just spewing bs, i dont know whether or not this chapter makes sense anymore.)
They didn't dwell on the issue any longer, they wanted to give him privacy and a piece of mind, plus after the events of The Great Disaster' finding a job these days are easier, hence why it won't be that hard to live all alone.
They talk some more mostly about what part time jobs he can apply to before heading back home.
Now inside his room, Fumio booted up his pc while seating on his ergonomic office chair.
"The Great Disaster huh." Fumio was quite intrigued by what happened that time, the story itself was very funny if you take out the 'it caused 46% percent of the human population to perish' part.
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A couple of decades ago, a group of nerd scientists working every day and night on their lab had an epiphany.
"we're going to die as loser virgins..."
"that isn't true right..."
"we spent all of our time finding a cure for cancer and we can't even get our cherries popped."
"we're supposed to be heroes! Why cant we experience romance?!"
Yes like the sore losers they are, they blamed their natural ugly appearances and personality on society.
"we aren't ugly! Society are just too picky."
"yeah they always prioritise looks over personality and attitude! by the way have you guys seen my usb drive with 2 terabytes of loli porn? Its been missing for a couple of days now"
"...if we can't have romance then no one can!"
"you're right, im sick and tired of other men boasting their love life on us, we had enough!"
And so they did, the group of virgins, oh i meant scientists, spent years creating a specific biological virus that attacks young people (but mostly men) who already done the deed, giving them temporary infertility and erectile disfunction that last for 2 months.
How did they made it? I mean it does sound kinda farfetch, no it is farfetch, there's no difference between a non virgin and a virgin, atleast that's what you thought.
You see they were able to find a new cell inhibiting the bodies of the people that got laid, they named that cell 'bane of all singles' or 'BAS' for short using this cell that was connected to the reproductive and nervous system to make a gateway for the virus to affect the body via air, water physical touch with the other infected or consuming something thats contaminated by the virus.
But like all untested experiments it failed spectacularly.
At first it did those 2 things, sending the world in panic, they found out that young people that lost their virginity at the age of 18-25 are the only ones that got infected, since the symptoms only last for two months things are still rather lax, but then it happened, on july 5 the first ever death case of the said virus happened.
They did an autopsy on the man and found out that his whole blood stream has been contaminated, every single blood cell turned pitch black making the skin of the infected turn the same color.
But whats worst is the effect of the black blood cells, every blood cell stop moving thus cutting off the circulation on the body slowly killing the host from the inside.
They did everything they could when it happened, giving the patients blood transfusions, more oxygen from the oxygen tanks even making them sleep in a cryo chamber hoping to slow down the process, but it all failed they only prolonged the patients sufferings,
Time passed and the virus laid waste to all of humanity killing 23% of its inhabitants in just a few years, the virus was named 'The Black Death' due to its symptoms, the people were scared and angry for losing their friends, family and loved ones not being able to do anything to save them.
The Scientists saw what they had caused and was drowned by guilt, they didn't mean to do this, they only wanted to cause slight panic around the world then things will be back to normal eventually.
But knowing their petty jealousy had caused this mass pandemic that claimed the lives of many, caused them to hide and shrivel, in fear to answer the crimes that they had done, in fear to look at the eyes of the people who lost someone important to them.
"...we really are cowards huh?"
"...instead of helping we hide ourselves while the world burns outside."
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"is this really what happened to us? I thought that we dedicated our lives to save theirs not kill it? Ask yourself, is this really what the scientist that wanted to see people be cured by a decease that they were helpless with would do?! The world is currently facing the same thing that we wanted to prevent! So why the hell are we cowering like idiots instead of fixing it! Stand and man the fuck up! We aren't cowards we're scientists! Its our job to attain the knowledge needed to piece things together and find the right answer! so let's set aside our petty reasons-"
The main scientist stood up and looked at his fellow companions with a resolute face.
"...and lets get to work."
The others were awe inspired by his speech, steeling themselves they also stand up while looking determined as ever.
""""YES!!!""""
Putting all of their time and energy they spent years making the cure, the total deaths around the world are now 46% the virus mutated and started infecting anyone that had lost their virginity, it didn't matter if you're young or old as long as your cherry was popped you cant escape death.
But just when all hope seems lost, a group of scientist found a cure that stops the spreading of 'The Black Death', they named the cure 'Daffodil'.
The cure worked it stopped the virus from spreading, ending the suffering of the people on earth.
But you can't bring back the dead no matter how much you try.
On the same day that the cure was released, the group of scientists turned themselves in to the authorities explaining what they did and what caused it in the first place.
They were stunned, you killed billions just because you hated couples?! You cause billions of families grief and sadness just because you couldn't get a girlfriend?!
This caused an uproar to the whole world some are just thankful that its finally over and some wanted public execution for the whole masses to see.
But the scientists didn't say anything they surrendered themselves to fate and they know that no amount of good deed can give them forgiveness for killing billions.
While the newly formed government was deciding their fate, all of the scientists are sent in a max security prison as inmates.
They spent a good amount of time inside till the day of their judgment, the world government decided to appease the masses and grant the majority of them what they wanted, public execution.
All of the scientists are lined up with each other in a big white room while the camera was in front of them, their heads are inside a guillotine. It wouldn't take a genius to know what's next.
They were granted to say their final words, each and every one them talked mostly about 'not doing it on purpose' and 'i know that its imposible for you guys to forgive us.' but the people were blinded by rage to give a fuck.
*splatter* the heads of the scientists fell down on the basket, followed by the silence of everyone watching.
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Lets skip a year after the beheading event, now that humanity is now cured, one question still remains, how are we going to recuperate our losses?
You see 'The Great Disaster' messed up the economy more than you thought, seeing that most of the important people on the world like doctors, nurses, teachers, farmers, military personnel, postal workers, chefs, politicians, waste treatment workers, law personnel, CEO of big companies and vehicle drivers are dead. Factories, businesses or any kind of establishment are in dire need of professions.
They need more people, so the government device a law to repopulate the missing 46% of the worlds population, and you guessed it, they allowed polygamy to happen, now a man can have multiple wives as long as the other party was willing to get along and share with
others.
Especially since the male gender are the ones that got affected the most.
Well the massive death of humans isn't all that bad, in fact hunger and poverty are in all time low, since every single human are essential to the economy and now that there's less mouths to feed more food are available for the others.
Earning money and getting richer for your services is also possible, imagine that you're the only mechanic in your town, naturally since there's no competitors, customers will all flock to you in need of your skills, this applies to every profession since the competition is scarce.
Earth-chan also got something in return, since there's less people on earth, nature was able to recover the wounds from human deforestation, mining, pollution and many more making both plants and animals species thrive.
And for the icing on the cake, most of the criminals are now gone! That means no more corrupt politicians, mob boss, terrorist organisations, robbers, people who rape and assault others and many more, which made the crime rate go down the lowest it will ever be on history.
So in the end, is the virus really all that bad? Maybe it was actually a blessing in disguise?
well no matter the answer is, one thing is for certain the scientists did die as virgin losers.
Well atleast they managed to do something that helped the earth